BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " GEORGIA ANN HILL ROBINSON " WAS THE FIRST FEMALE POLICE OFFICER IN LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK HEROES "

BLACK        SOCIAL         HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                        Georgia Ann Hill Robinson

Birth:  May 12, 1879 Opelousas St. Landry Parish Louisiana, USA Death:  Sep. 21, 1961 Los Angeles Los Angeles County California, USA Policewoman Georgia Ann Hill never knew her parents, being raised by an older sister, then later, in a convent. At 18, she moved to Kansas where she took a job as a governess, met and married Morgan Robinson. The two moved to Leadville, Colorado, then Los Angeles with their daughter, Marian. Georgia became involved in various community organizations, where she was spotted by a Los Angeles Police Department recruiter who offered her a job. On July 25, 1916, Georgia became the first black policewoman in LAPD history, and likely the entire United States. She was first assigned as a jail matron, then later worked juvenile and homicide cases. She discovered in the course of her work that there was a great need for a women's shelter, and helped found the Sojourner Truth Home for those with nowhere else to go. In 1928, while attempting to break up a fight between two drunken women in the jail, she suffered a head injury that led to total permanent blindness. Pensioned off on disability, she began working with local community leaders to desegregate Los Angeles beaches and schools and continued her work with women in the shelter. Georgia was quoted in the September 1954 issue of Ebony magazine - "I have no regrets. I didn't need my eyes any longer. I had seen all there was to see."